Rev. H. L. McCROEEY, D. D. LL. D., Editor. wr S HIT t,l y-/,itnr Rov. C. P. PITCHPORD, Business Manager. of our people the South, and pub 9rft ithPtf/P* ' ***** »9 / i > various Subjects above indicated are -yd diseusasd from. -a Christian point of freshest and nest news from the nufi &id *tfd from the Church sri yii y/y ri large. • These’ |ia< earcdully i eeleet o red reading matter suited to all eWe ea pf our people—the farmer,, 4U*; ' mechahic, the amtoii1 Arid” tty ' fessional than.■ Oinp Lr* The Sabbath School attdiMission-. , fxyL oawes .yfW .w^eiVf, tentipn. I „. ,, r , .... .. / ^ OF, SUBSCRIPTION ~ . .50 a 01 hid -m o y8fJK no o brtfl ;jrriy. y rf) i Six months .y. . , J J -■•t-fot Three months ——f-—~4 F RATES OF ADVERTISING. : -:ir ’ Application.7 flK . . We earnestly ask the sympathy and sprayer*' of bur brethren and itiktM at large ih order that our efforts in this enterprise may be erowned with suggest’1 fl - AGENTS WANTED—to whom a liberal commission will be paid; ■ Beni ah money by P., 0. Moaejr Order, Registered Letter or Bank Cheek, etherwiee, it might get lost and the sender alone will be respon sible.-;, ... ,, , -vd ■ Entered at the Poatofflce at Char ■hh^ N,; C., as aeoond class matter. 'fHUfc&DAtf, NOV; 26, 1925 A THANKSGIVING THOUGHT O give thanks unto the Lord; call upon his name; make known his deeds among the people. Sing unto him; sing psalms unto him rtAlk ye of alThis won idrdiis Works.' —Psalrh 105, verses 1-2. - *WhBre shall the he?, , GRO LIVE?” .'V fey t^p Sweet; case tn Detroit and the' agitation during .'recent months of the f question of segregating the Ne gro in many cities of the North West, the Christian Work of November 14th. prints a symposium of articles in an ffwer tb the question, “Where Shall the Negro Live?” Among :7 those ‘ asked to answer this query were Dr. W. E. J''-y B. Du Bols, James Weldon Jphnson and Eugene Kinckle w; Jopes; representative Negroes; Sehator Blease arid Governor McLeod of South Carolina; Dr. H. W. Evans, head of the Eu Klux Kian; Bishop John M. ’ /Moore.ofthe Southern Meth odist Church; Dr. Will W. Alex ander, of the Interracial Com ' m tfiission, Atlanta; Dr. James H. Dillard, President of the Slater ^f^^u^aj^Koger N. Baldwin, of the American Civil Liberties Union; ?rasf>h[pjr‘1 ^•jjP’arkes.. Cadihan; Bishop : Chas. H. Brent, of the Epis r>-b*‘‘copal Church; Father John A. . Ryan> of the Roman Catholic (jhurch; and Mr. Ellsworth , Hnntington,' who is styled “the x, j geographer and student of hu [ ‘ 4^ r^ah relations in many . climes " , and countries.” w>di The Christian.. Work repro ■, fI H duces an editorial reference to ,, * segregation which appeared in -io vj&Usaqe Pf September 26, and .. then- submits the following:. vvyx fought opt?m... • K>rf; \,v^e of£cjaJly .$et . apart, streets or sections for. the. Negroes? -ms.-SWfflW-sP’L.SP^It’bsr.'r :rasrt erf} ni To these questions Dr. Du erfi Bois makes 'the fallowing chdr sfeerTprittrasticvrepiyirirrfxe e-tern erf < ^r thihlr that thbyf side. Then you ask three questions. First, shoulc side ey go on trying side when you ? is yi»n / nave aireany/ inti mata: James Weldon Johnson thinks that “if a colored family legal ly purchases a house in any neighborhood and conducts it self in accordance with the laws of the community ahd of decen cy, it has the right to stay there , . - The fact that a man.lives next door or in the same block places no social ob ligation upon his. neighbors In this city families live in the same house . and do not know each other and do not seek to know each other.” Eugene Kinckle Jones writes at greater: length than either Dr. u Bois or Mr. Johnson, citing reasons why Negroes seek the more desirable locations. He says Negroes will not consent to legal segregation nor will they make any agreement writ ten or understood that will con fine them to . undesirable sec tions of our cities.”! V Senator Biease’s opinion is what, one would expect from him: “it would be an injustice to both races,” he thinks, “to set apart streets, but we should most assuredly set apart sec tions,” and he would embody this idea in a national law. V Governor McLeod is of the opinion that “segregation is vastly better for the benefit of both races ... Whether or not you should officially set apart streets or sections for Negroes 1 am unable to say.” Dr. Evans, of the Ku Klux Klan, thinks “thatthe only way to avoid friction is to have reg ularly designated districts in the cities for Negro residents.” Bishop Moore believes segrega ton would be best for both rac es,-but says: “No city has the moral < right to enact segrega tion laws without at the same time binding itself to provide and maintain for the streets and sections set apart for Ne groes just as complete and ad equate public improvements as would be provided for white people.” But he acknowledges that “the injustice of segrega tion has been right here.” Mr. Roger N. Baldwin, of the American Civil Liberties Un ion, says: v “There is never trouble when Negroes live in white folks back yards, however close. The al leys of Southern and border ci-‘ ties are filled with Negroes; but the moment one of them tries to move on to the street on the basis of apparent social equality with whites, trouble starts.” None of the other writers see any solution in segregation. Dr. Dillard thinks the matter will adjust itself. TWO MINISTERS GIVEN CARS. Some weeks ago we pub lished an account of the giving of an automobile to the Rev. E. W. Carpenter by friends of the church at Shinnecock. Southampton, Long Island, N. Y., of which he is the min ister. We are glad to note that another of our deserving min isters, the Rev. H. C. Miller, of St. James and Hannah church es, at Greensboro, was recently given a beautiful car. We are sure such tokens of apprecia tion on the part of these con gregations will inspire their ministers to larger service. THE NEGRO IN THE SOUTH ERN CHURCHES LONG ■ "AGO. ■’ ■f■ v <-<;• ru It was stated in connection with the meeting of the North Carolina Conference of the Methodist. Episcopal Church, $outh, in Fayetteville, week be fore last, .that the Hay Street church in which the sessions of the conference Were held, was founded by a Negro preacher. Another historical Sketch says the First church of Charlotte, in which thi white' Baptists of 6f the State held their annual Convention last week,1 was or ganized 93 years ago and that 39 persons constituted the orig nal organization, 30 of whom we*£- Negroes and 9 white per sons. jp| . jpfcjy .A’.yatk. i No "qoubt other like In cidents could be cited, thus showing the Negro'sPielpful in fluence in Southern churches in the, long ago. It is to be hoped that some capable historian will find this particular phase of Negro, life a fertile field for study. The results would cer tainly be interesting, and,’ we should think, profitable. .n;:<_.... . ir ;™ hr THE STORY OP UGO NAKA DA. • By Homer Rodeheaver Not so long ago Ugo Nakada from Japan, broadcasted a Jap anese musical program from WLS, Sears and Roebuck broad casting station, Chicago. Daily, since he sang, letters have been coming to him from all parts of the country asking about him, how he learned to sing the gospel sings in English, and about his life in Japan. The story of Nakada, to me, is the most interesting of any true stories that' I have ever heard. I never see him but I think of the home from which he came—and the tremendous power of a song that would reach him three thousand miles away. Several years ago he attend ed a mission in Japan where he heard several selections of gos pel music played on a vjctrola. Although he .could not under stand the language in which they were sung, there was one song that went straight to his heart. He asked permission to take the record home. It was granted. Day after day he played the record over, learning the words by note until he could sing them. He did not under stand their meaning, but* lie did understand the spiritual appeal of the music. Finally, at the mission, the words were interpreted for him, and they made such an irnpres sion that he wrote to jhe in America to secure other Rain bow Records. Of course we mailed them, little thinking of their destination. Finally Nakado decided to come to America to find tlfS mdn who had sung “Since Jesus Came Into My Heart” on the Rainbow Record. At that time I was with the Billy Sunday staff at Cin cinnati. Ugo Nakado reached the tabernacle at 9 o’clock the eve ning of our last meeting in the city. It was crowded to capacity and he was unable to get in. Finally he pursuaded the atten dent at the platform entrance to let him in. When the meeting was over he asked an usher to take him to me. The usher told him in his ignorance, that I would be too busy to see him. You can imagine his disappoint ment after coming that distance to get me to help him sing gospel songs. He returned to Japan be lieving his quest had been in vain Several years later while making a tour around the world, I happened to be in his home city in Japan. He heard that I was there and sought me out. It was then that' he told me this story. He accompanied me back to America where he has been pre paring himself for evangelistic singing, when he returns to Ja pan. I thought you would like to hear his story, and under stand what is back of his songs when you hear them this fall and winter on the air. UNEMPLOYMENT “Can you get me a job?" This is the question that has been put to us several times lately by reliable men out of a job but anxious to work. We have had to answer the question in the negative. These frequent que ries have forced upon our atten tion the fact that there are hun dreds of men out of work. What is the matter with the indus trial conditions that there is such a scarcity of work? With unemployment so general the outlook for the winter is not encouraging. Those who are employed should be grateful and do all in their power to keep their jobs by promptness and dependability, for. jobs are scarce.—Omaha (Neb.) Moni itor.. ■ ' a/l : -ii >.p,< ■1 jnfi-'''-’ Hear former Governor Morri son Sunday afternoon at Sev enth Street church. ANGLO-SAXON CIVILIZA TION PASSING? two are of mixed blood, having light and well-nigh wavy hair, lig^grey'eyes, w-elT^propb^ tioned mouths, with noses ap proaching the aquiline, sure signs of Anglo-Saxon strain. V.I turned from the window and looked oyer an assemblage of three hundred boys ana girls, and a similar spectacle greeted me—certainly not in the same ratio. I asked what means all this, after more than fifty years of freedom for the black man, and more than fifty years for the white man cooperating with the black man to reach a sta ble moral, equilibrium. This af ter more than fifty years of freedom for the black man, and more than fifty years of oppor tunity for the white man to set the seal of his disapproval un mistakably upon race admixture and demonstrate to the world his boasted superior moral worth. White men face about and explain this condition by calling it the moral weakness of my race. I prefer to call it the carnal weakness of the white.man, an exhibition of his unbridled lust—a veritable death-spot on Anglo-Saxon civ ilisation. This also gives the lie to his boasted superior moral strength and fitness, and, in face of it, his as sumed superiority in general vanishes into thin air, his dog mas and traditions on the whole subject nothing more than “cunningly devised fables,” and he stands branded a canting hy pocrite, since it requires only the thin veil of night to change all. I go further—there is not a race under the blue of the sky— not a race beneath the sun (where the Anglo-Saxon has lived or moved) that does not show some strain or taint of Anglo-Saxon blood. Does this show moral virility or moral pu erility? Was F. S. Stribling right when, in the June number of “Current Opinion,” 1922 or 1923, he wrote, (directing his shaft particularly at the South) “The white man has dehuman ized the Negro, and the Negro has taken himself at the white man’s valuation of him.” He calls this the tragedy of the South and goes on to say, “This self-depreciation goes so far that the Negro comes to regard everything of value as white.” He confesses that the attitude of many white men toward Ne gro women especially is putrid. These same white men apolo gize for that attitude by say ing, “Many Negro women invite their fate.” This is another aw ful confession of the white man’s carnal weakness. Think of the white man of rare cul ture and refinement, with s thousand favorable and forti fying moral advantages, being tempted to sin by a black, ig norant, unfortunate, untutored, Negro womam He is to be pi tied in being exposed to the aw ful temptation and even the se duction of these inferior black beings. This tells and says to all thinking race men and women that the white man’s superior advanatges resulting from wealth, culture, refinement, and what not, have served but to render him more intensely hu man, while at the same time it makes him less humane. His likes and dislikes, therefore, should create no surprise. His irreconcilable prejudices—deep seated—are natural and have been accentuated by the fullest development of his mind. I am ready to contend that the Anglo-Saxon civilization has not wrought a change in the entire man. Moreover, the wprld is in travail, and groans in pain for a civilization born out of the soul of suffering, as its final redemption is to be effected by the blood spilt on Calvary. It cries for a civiliza tion more human and not less humane; a civilization that puts into its program a plank that emphasizes and exalts hu man needs—social, physical, mental, moral and spiritual. Under this new civilization race admixture,, miscegenation, so cial equality fads, fantasies and fancies will give place or way to the law of “Natural selection.” Under it man will interpret aright the divine intention, his be the work of any one all-pre dominating race or people, but a conglomerate, wttft sotnr ele^ BSS4m«3SLE1T id arrangement for the men. Under it man the law law of'©off. ©tflTof the death throes of the old pass ing ; civilisation‘jdl new civiliza tion will be born. Tt. wjll “The Magna Charta” will be the Word of Uod—the BiWe. By digression there can he -found and quoted numerous, eminent opinions from men like Edward VI, Henry Ward Beecher, Dan iel Webster, Abe Lincoln, Gen. Grant, Woodrow Wilson ahd others of like rating, showing or going to show the part the Bible plays: upon the individual and public life, and the place to which it is entitled in any en during scheme of civilization; However, the largest contribu tion to this civilization will by far be made by the subject rac es of the world1 because they have experienced and borne the bitterness of the world's'scorns, frowns and sorrows as no oth ers have done. Sorrow and suf fering have such a peculiarly purifying and refining effect as to become a specific in rounding out and rendering human life and character symmetrical. There is nothing that so ef fectually and effectively stiif$ and sets free the sluggish springs of human kindness and sympathy. This adds a new an gle and a fuller meaning to that beautiful passage of the Bible which reads, “For it became Him, for whom are all things, in bringing many sons into glo ry, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through suf fering.” Heb. 2 :10. We cannot lay fingers on any part of the body of our present civilization, which is Anglo Saxon to 1 the core, Without touching what seems to me a sore, if not a death spot. When the late world war broke out and the nations were swept in to a seething whirlpool of the greatest' convulsion known tor human history, the allied forces Sought & cattse, - * -- Germany being a Militant country by the ambition for world empire, conquest; and power, was at once indicted, and convicted, as the greatest standing menace to world peace. The next step and final conclu sion were easy and natural, hence, the slogan, “Germany must be reduced and eliminat ed as an international factor and power.” If this were wholly true, the subjugation and practical elim ination of Germany should and ought in a measure, at least, to put an end to world disorder, or hold out some word of prophecy and promise of a stable world peace. If Germany’s ambition was the prime cause of the great est single catastrophe chroni cled by the hand of man, ought not the curbing of that ambi tion span the crimson sky of a suffering, bleeding world with some bow of hope? But what are the facts? The ending ot this terrific strife marks the beginning of the greatest of upheavals. Peace conference after conference has been held, and still there are vexing international questions which from time to time grow more or less acute Then, if we are to accredit our daily papers, periodicals and magazines, we are passing just now through an epoch of blood. Murders in high and low places threaten to cover the earth. Vice and crime, with hand in hand, stalk unblushing iy, abroad in the noon-day light. All this moi£ or less grows out of the fact that war has left the world unstrung. Every scheme of readjustment and re construction seems doomed— hopelessly doomed—hence, of fers little or no relief. Stable peace and final adjustment and reconstruction will not, and cannot, come until the; prime element of foreign and domes tic discord is found, and re moved. I verily believe that there will and can be no real and final settlement of the dis turbing and divisive forces among men, until out of the death throes of the present civ ilization springs a new civiliza | :,^W»ow|^frtteiBjPbgr to an |red « post tcffibolaa of tile |km B e,3|ycm|Bfrp (^a cmccc rapr«ftToldr" umaffes- and leaves upon my mind. Viewed from the several points suggest §d now own de lis own SI, does already has appeared, and has even begun tb£%i*rftng on the Wall? Any civilization whose leading tenet and chief propaganda are the inherent and ineffaceable difference of races; deifies man, hewe, cannot be ^du^j. f ully pieet j^ h^hM needs is a ilization,,., TM». fcind ’albne ac knowledges Godtei’athe^of SI, deifies Jesus Christ* ‘i&ii pro claims all men brothers. ft alone cries ?0 blood of the people! change less tide, through, n century, creed and race!',00ms Still one as the sweetaalt sea d is one, the? tempered i^y sun \ rr 1 and place; teo btmwa ■ The same in the ocean cur ii rents, and the.; same o in the ) sheltered seas^/i hurnffts-. Forever the fountain^ o£> com mon ; hopes and kindly sym pathies; i i was a * lovely church-going day, and the members of our church took advantage of it. We had a splendid audience in the morn ing. Our pastor, Rev. J. H. Clement, preached a soul-stir ring sermon from Luke 10:18, “And he said unto them I be held Satan as lightning fall from heaven/’ -His theme was: “War in Heaven.” 0 /)/? •> As he arose to deliver the message sent from God through him to us, he said, “Let us go into heaven a little while and imagine Satan being there and causing war in heaven and be ing cast over the balustrade of heaven. He said war' had' been on ever since. Evenr i& our hearts and churches Satan is the master of evil.1 *Th$'devil appears in our different1 homes. One of the worst devils is the society devil. The society dev il sneaks into our homes and destroys our wives and. hus bands and daughters. He thus carries many of our £hurch members to ruin. ‘ Elder W. M. Massey has been on the sick list, but f.w$V were glad to see him in dim hudst Su“dw- . „ ' na sL . Mr. and Mrs. Henry, Davis were called away, to,attend the funeral of Mn T,|ether. They have our The Woman’s Misisonary So ciety will hold their next meet ing at the parsonage. Our Sunday schools is doing nicely now. diaino • Mrs. Ada Whitlock will as sist the shepherdess in training the children for the Christmas exercises. .bwitr @d ■v Mr. Gilmer Franklin; is ex pected home to spendrf the Christmas holidays. We'will be glad to have bis presence in the Sunday school.